This week we cover games like Etherborn, what genre mash-ups we’d like following the announcement of Disintegration at Gamescom and the Apex Legends vitriol towards a developer’s comments. We drink beers from Dry & Bitter, Deya, Hofbrau kaltenhausen, Cloudwater and Boundary

No, It’s not a Star Wars week. Things have just worked this way for a catchy title. Ben and Lucy get together to discuss the games they’ve been playing over the last week (or two for Lucy). These include Bully, A Short Hike, Moonlighter: Between Dimensions and Solo: Islands of the Heart. As we’re a day early the beer is not flowing but Ben had a can he was saving for a wet and rainy night, which it definitely was when recording. He drinks Something Something Dark Side a collab Imperial Stout from Heist Brew Co and Emperor’s Brewery. The Simpsons / Doom Slayer video was taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlZ1Yas8PA and uploader Mass acher (the one with all the views has […]

Ben and Aadil are joined by Issac Kean a co-founder of This Next Act, the comedy podcast on the out of lives network. We dig deep to talk about how awful the internet is after the Ooblets developers Glumberland’s exclusivity announcement. Ben chats a few of the games he is flitting between and Issac talks Spider-Man for PS4 and PS2 and the Tetris style puzzler 2048 Blocks. Aadil and Issac drink a selection of beers from Next Level Brewing from Vienna whilst Ben drinks new beers from Yonder Brewing & Blending and Duration.

This week Lucy’s played Blazing Chrome, Ben laments the closure of Defiant Development and Aadil thinks about the responsibility of games and journalism with the announcement of Misinformer. We drink beers from Collective Arts, Brew By Numbers, Dry & Bitter, and two collabs, one from Cloudwater x Modern Times and another from Wylam x Track x North Brew Co.

This week our heroes recount their weekend in Birmingham visiting the Stirchley Beer Mile and hit a big food tangent. Lucy’s been playing The Eternal Castle (Remaster), Aadil wants to talk Hop Stuff Brewery and takeovers and Ben chats a break from gaming (albeit a short one). The beers drank are from Salt Beer Factory, Left Handed Giant, Monyo Brewing, Brick Brewery and The Garden Brewery.

Its a beer and ben-less episode this week as Aadil and Lucy prep for the Bristol crew heading to Birmingham for some Lucy-curated beerbauchery. We manage to start with a conversation about youth drinking and the growing craft gin movement. We talk Prey and the latest Niantic augmented reality game: Harry Potter Wizarding World, while sipping on both sparkling and still H20. We also manage to talk hangovers, when we get them and possible ways to avoid them, hint: h20 is your friend.

Ben and Aadil had a little trip out last night so this weeks episode has some beer chat but doesn’t feature any drinking, boo, hiss, we know. Ben and Aadil went to The Good Measure for a tap take over from The Kernel and tell Lucy all about the beers. Lucy’s been playing more Super Mario Maker 2 and has finished Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. Ben talks a little about Sunless Skies and cries that PES was removed from PS Plus. Finally, Aadil has a list of indie titles to discuss including Distance, Flat Out 2, Nidhogg 2 and Super Flight.

Ben, Lucy and Aadil discuss Draugen and walking sims, Super Mario Maker 2, various Konami collections, Cadence of Hyrule and what insane game TV shows we’d like to see following the FF14 announcement. We drink beers from Magic Rock, Pressure Drop, Townsquare brewing, Cloudwater and Adnams.

As Aadil’s still in Canada we discuss the take over of Wild Rose Brewery by the larger Candian brewer Sleeman Breweries (Sapporo), Lucy dives into Void Bastards and Ben has played a load of games including Tabletop Gods, Devlover Bootleg, Gato Roboto and Observation. Aadil has also been enjoying some Box Boy and Box Girl with a friend The beers this week are from SYC Brewing, Garage X Whiplash X Fuerst Wiacek, Ravens Brewing and Weird Beard.

Aadil, Lucy and Ben return to run down their favourite bits from the Bethesda conference.